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Recent Books

Gail received first place in poetry for "Before Making Love" (from The Art of Healing) from the Women's National Book Association and was interviewed on PBS. PBS Newshour interview with Gail Entrekin, "When cancer changed everything, writing poems was an act of healing" by Mary Jo Brooks, May 23, 2016.

Coming in 2016-17

Due out soon!New Work (in development) by Chris Olander
Spiraling Forward: A Journey from Darkness to Light by Ashley Pinkerton
Richard Kovac, The Benign Tree Marvin X, (in development)

Forever Journal

New blog poetry: Sandeep Kumar Mishra, from India and Clifford Browder, from New York City.

20th Anniversary 2017-20

2017 will be the 20th year since Poetic Matrix Press began, starting first with a newsletter, then a series of chapbooks and then the first of our 60 plus full length books. We will begin soon a year long celebration of the over 60 books we have published. James Downs has suggested a Press anthology many time so next summer we are planning an anthology of our poets and will be in touch with all of you regarding this. I'm hoping to get recommendations from many folks on which poems to reproduce. Hopefully a reading in the Bay Area and one in San Diego will come out of this. It's been a great 20 years.

Recent Bookfairs we have attended

AWP in Los Angeles
Oakland Book Festival
Bay Area Book Festival on the streets of Berkeley